they want to build a solar power plant belt around the moon and send the collected energy back to earth - via microwave and laser beams.

what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.wired.co.uk Wrote:Japanese architectural and engineering firm the Shimizu Corporation has announced its lunar solar power generation concept, dubbed the "Lunar Ring", which it hopes will one day allow for the unlimited use of clean energy, claiming it could continuously send 13,000 terawatts of power back to Earth.